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Transitions in chronic low back pain in Japanese older adults
— a sociomedical perspective | | Author(s) | Naoko Muramatsu, Jersey Liang, Hidehiro Sugisawa |
| Journal title | The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological sciences and social sciences, vol 52B, no 4, July 1997 |
| Pages | pp S222-S234 |
| Keywords | Musculoskeletal diseases ; Pain ; Longitudinal surveys ; Japan. |
| Annotation | This study examines the patterns and determinants of chronic low back pain over a three year period among older adults in Japan. The authors tested a model based on a socio-medical perspective, using a two-wave national probability sample survey of 2,000 people aged 60 and over conducted in 1987 and 1990 in Japan. At baseline, the prevalence of chronic low back pain was 18%. Among those who were free of back pain at baseline, the probabilities of onset, death and non-response were 13%, 7% and 10%. Among those who had back pain at baseline, the probabilities of recovery, death and non-response were 43%, 8%, and 9%, respectively. A multinominal (i.e. multinomial) logistic regression analysis supports the authors' thesis that societal factors (age, gender, education, and social relationships) affect transitions in chronic back pain not only directly, but also indirectly through mediating health and health behaviour factors. The results suggest that social relationships have both favourable and unfavourable effects on chronic low back pain. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-971125280 A |
| Classmark | CL: CT7: 3J: 7DT |
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